IDENTILIN$$  F129LR1|HWVenice|Burley MS|ff. 285v-86\T:EWS\o\5-20-83\FM:GL\x\date?\P:EWS\hwt,mf\6-22-05\C:JSC\12-20-05
129.LR1.0HE  [LM]To S%5r%6 H: W: going into /Venice:
129.LR1.001  After those reverent papers whose soule is
129.LR1.002  our good & great kings loued hand & feard name
129.LR1.003  by w%5ch%6 to y%5o%6 he deriues much
129.LR1.004  and (how he may) makes y%5o%6 almost y%5e%6 same
129.LR1.005  A taper of his torch a coppy writt
129.LR1.006  from his originall and a fayre beame
129.LR1.007  of y%5e%6 same warme & dazling sonne though it
129.LR1.008  must in another spheare his vertue streame.
129.LR1.009  After those lerned papers w%5ch%6 y%5r%6 hand
129.LR1.010  hath stord w%5th%6 notes of vse & pleasure to
129.LR1.011  from w%5ch%6 safe tresury y%5o%6 may com%Mand
129.LR1.012  fitt matter whether y%5o%6 will write or do
129.LR1.013  After those loving papers where frends send
129.LR1.014  w%5th%6 gladsome greife to y%5r%6 seaward steps farwell
129.LR1.015  w%5ch%6 thicken on y%5o%6 as prayears ascend
129.LR1.016  to heaven in troupes at a good mans passing bell
129.LR1.017  admitt this honest paper & allow
129.LR1.018  it such an audience as y%5r%6 self would aske
129.LR1.019  what y%5o%6 must say at venice this means now
129.LR1.020  and hath for nature what y%5o%6 haue for taske
129.LR1.021  to sweare much loue not to bee chaung before
129.LR1.022  honor & loue will to y%5r%6 fortune fitt
129.LR1.023  nor shall I then honor y%5r%6 fortune more
129.LR1.024  than I haue done y%5r%6 noble wanting it
129.LR1.025  but tis an easier load though both oppresse
129.LR1.026  to want then governe greatnes for we are
129.LR1.027  in this%>>that< o%5r%6 owne & only busines
129.LR1.028  in this we must for others vices care
129.LR1.029  Tis therfore well y%5r%6 spirits now are placd
129.LR1.030  in there last furnace in actiuity
129.LR1.031  w%5ch%6 fitts them (schooles & courts & tents orepast)
129.LR1.032  to touch & tast of any best degree. [CW:om]
129.LR1.033  for me (if there bee such a thing as I) [286]
129.LR1.034  fortune (if there bee such a thing as shee)
129.LR1.035  spies y%5t%6 so well I beare her tyranny
129.LR1.036  as nothing else shee thinks so fitt for mee.
129.LR1.037  but though shee part vs heere my oft prayers
129.LR1.038  for y%5r%6 encrease god is as neere me heere
129.LR1.039  and to send y%5o%6 what I shall begg his stayers
129.LR1.040  in lenght[sic] & ease are all alike every where.
129.LR1.0SSom  
129.LR1.0$$  no sts, no ind. %1wr. under poem:%2 postscript. S%5r%6 though p%Pchaunce it were nev%5r%6 t>r<yed except in Rabelais his land /of tapistry it may bee true y%5t%6 a pigmey vpon a Giant may see further then /y%5e%6 giant so after along letter this postscript may see further into y%5o%6 then y%5t%6 /if y%5o%6 will answere to 2 questions whether y%5o%6 haue y%5r%6 last dispatches /at court or whether y%5o%6 make >%Ym%Z<any dayes stay there or at London. /such a one as I may yett kisse y%5r%6 hand.|